There was no air conditioning and parts of the roof were gone, so the mosquitoes would swarm in on those hellishly hot nights. People had their guns ready for the looters. There were also monkeys, llamas, cougars and who knows what else roaming around. Lorraine Valladares, 70, was a middle school teacher who lived on the eastern edge of the Everglades in a house that was damaged but still standing after Hurricane Andrew. She didn’t get power restored for months, and to this day, she’s still haunted by the sound of a portable generator. Like other south Miami-Dade County residents, she can divide her life cleanly into two parts: before Andrew and after.